Our Speakers

Thomas Holzapfel

Bayer

Head of Procurement Enabling Functions

Understanding the Impact: Procurement Organizations' Implications

• Proactive procurement leaders can prepare for the future by building relationships with C-level executives like the CMO and CIO to align procurement strategically and understand key business challenges.
• Highlighting procurement's value beyond supplier selection throughout the supplier relationship can lead to improved business results in 2025.
• Embrace outsourcing for innovative solutions, as providers offer unprecedented capabilities for efficient handling of operational functions.
• Consider a Vendor Management Office (VMO) to integrate outsourcers and access state-of-the-art, cost-effective solutions.
• Anticipating changes in the next decade allows procurement leaders to deliver enhanced operations management and value to their organizations.

Mauricio Odovaine

Meta

Head of Outsourcing & Sourcing

AI's Transformative Role in Procurement Practices

• Utilizing AI algorithms to identify and onboard diverse suppliers contributing to supplier diversity goals.
• Enhancing supplier discovery processes through AI-powered data analysis and predictive modeling.
• Exploring how AI-driven predictive analytics can optimize demand forecasting, reducing inventory costs and supply chain risks.
• Exploring AI's ethical impact in procurement, addressing biases and risks while ensuring transparent, fair, and accountable processes in compliance with European regulations.

Berthold Albers

ExxonMobil

Chief Operations - Global Procurement

Procurement: from Service Provider to Business Partner

Benjamin Zeidler

AgileOne

Senior Director – Business Development DACH

Future-Proofing Your Procurement Strategy: Navigating Workforce Solutions with MSP/VMS Solution

• MSPs in talent management: Addressing labor shortages and strategic talent sourcing for long-term business goals.
• Efficiency and savings with VMS: Streamlining procurement, enhancing visibility, and achieving cost savings.
• Vendor neutrality vs. non-neutrality: Analyzing the impact on procurement strategy, supplier diversity, and cost-effectiveness.
• MSPs vs. staffing agencies: Highlighting MSPs' role in compliance, risk management, and strategic category management.
• Direct sourcing in talent acquisition: Enhancing employer branding and engaging a loyal talent pool.
• Case study: Demonstrating MSP and VMS effectiveness in labor solutions, cost savings, compliance, and strategic management.

Stijn Laenen

Nippon Shokubai Europe

Head of Procurement

Evolving Procurement: Make it count

• How the world of procurement is changing and how to adapt?
• Purpose-driven Procurement: Make it count.
• Strategic Partnerships with suppliers and stakeholders: We are in this together.
• The new Procurement Talent: How to attract, retain and develop procurement talent?

Frederic Jacquet

Solvay

VP Procurement Industrial and Indirects

Industrial Contracts Management

• Productivity: Wrench time (how to measure and implement)
• EPC vs EPCm in Major Capex
• Leveraging safety performance
• Change order and cost management